Shawl-strap



(No Model.)

L. A. BEAT'I'Y.

SHAWL STRAP.

No. 310,641. Patented Jai s, 1385,

WITNESSES 66m.

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secured, to the free end of which a boX or UNiTnn STaTns LAURA A. BEATTY, OF

SHAWL- GALESBURG, ILLINOIS.

STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 310,6t1, dated January 13, 1885.

Application filed June 14, 1884. No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LAURA A. BEATTY, of Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Shawl-Strap, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved shawl-strap which is so constructed that it holds shawls, parcels, 850., firmly, and permits of removing the shawl, parcel, 820., very readily or replacing it in the holder.

The invention consists in the combination, with two bars having handles, of straps secured to one bar and passed through loops on the other bar, which bars are provided with means for holding them together, the shawl, 8m, being held by the straps.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved shawl-strap. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional elevation of the bars, showing the latch or clasp.

Two bars, A A, of metal or of several layers of thick leather stitched together, are each provided at the middle with a handle, B, of some suitable construction, and held to the bar in some suitable manner.

To eachbar A three straps, C, are fastened, one at each end and one at the middle, which straps are passed through elongated loops or eyes D, secured on the bar A in corresponding positions. Above each loop D a button, E, is secured on the outer surface of the bar A, and each strap 0 is provided in its free end with a button-hole, J. Each strap 0 is provided with a buckle, F, with a sliding loop, G, and with a series of apertures for the prong of the buckle. The buckles F are secured on those parts of the straps between the loops 'D and the bar A.

On each end of each bar A a chain, H, is

frame, K, is secured, adapted to receive the ends of the two bars A A when the same are placed close together. A latch, clasp, or

catch, L, adapted to embrace both bars A A when they are pressed together, is pivoted to the middle of the bar A.

The strap is used in the following manner: The shawl is placed on the straps O, and the two bars A A are placed against each other and are held together at the ends by passing the boxes or frames K on the ends and at the middle by the clasp or catch L. The straps O are drawn taut, and the free ends are passed through the buckles F, and are locked on the buckles by passing the prongs of the buckles through one of the apertures in the strap. The loops G are then slipped over the free ends of the straps to hold them in place. When the holder or shawl-strap is not in use, the straps are wound around the bars A A, and the buttons E are passed through the button-holes J to hold the ends of the straps to the bars. If one of a number of shawls, &c., or one of a number of parcels held by the straps is to be removed from the strap or holder, the boxes K are removed from the ends of the bars, and the latch L is raised, thus permitting of separating the bars A A to remove the desired article, and then the bars are brought together and locked by means of the boXes K and the latch L. When the number of shawls or parcels is so great that the strap cannot reach back to the buckle, the strap can be'fastened by slipping the corresponding button into the slit or opening in the end of the strap.

Having thus-described my invention, I claim as new and desire to-secure by Letters Patent- 1. A shawl-strap made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of two bars, to one of which a series of single straps are secured which pass through loops on the other bar, and are secured to themselves respectively, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a shawl-strap, the combination, with two bars, each having a handle, of means, substantially as set forth, for holdingthe two bars together, and of straps secured to one bar and passed through loops on the other, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. In a shawlstrap, the combination, with the bars A A, of the boxes or frames K'K, held by chains to the ends of the bar A, the

straps O, secured to the bar A, and having; the loops D on the bar A, and the buttons E buckles F, and of the elongated loops D on above the loops, substantially as herein shown 10 the bar A, substantially as herein shown and and described. described.

4. In ashawl-strup, the combination, with the bars A A, of the boxes or frames K, the \Vitnesses: catch, clasp, or latch, L, the straps C, secured I. G. DIETERIcH, on the bar A, and provided with buckles F, Z. BEA'ITY.

LAURA A. BEATTY. 

